density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a difference-in-difference identification strategy to control for preexisting differences … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

relation between matches on the one hand and unemployment and vacancies on the other hand can be the result of different …